Originally Posted by jfman

According to the ONS:

“There were 607,172 deaths registered in the UK in 2017, an increase of 1.7% from 597,206 in 2016 and the highest number registered annually since 2003.”

They can’t all have voted remain/abstained. The electorate in theory could be divergent by about 1.2 million deaths and a larger similar number of births in 1998-2000 joining the electorate. For a wafer thin referendum there has to come a point where it’s simply “out of date” as a measure of the will of the living people.